美国文学填空题

美国文学补充练习填空题

Part I

1.At last early in the century, the English settlements in and began the main

stream of what we recognize as American national history.

2.The earliest settlers in US, includes , Swedes, , French, , Italians, and .

3.’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first

distinctly American literature to be written in English.

4.The Puritans had come to New England for the sake of , while Virginia had been planted

mainly as a .

5.Hard work, , piety, and were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest

American writing, including the sermons, books, and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.

6., the first governor of Plymouth, and , who held the same post at Boston, were men

superior to even the remarkable qualities that distinguished many of their associates. Each has left us a priceless gift: the former, , the latter .

7.The best way to learn more of the colonial Puritan mind is to meet two important figures,

_____and .

8.Most puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of the two writers, Anne Bradstreet

and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of .

Answer:

1.17th, V irginia, Massachusetts

2.Ducth, Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese

3.Captain John Smith

4.religious freedom, commercial venture

5.thrift, sobriety

6.William Bradford, John Winthrop, The History of Plymouth Plantation, The History of New

England

7.John Cotton, Roger Williams

8.real poetry

Part II

1.As we have seen, dominated the Puritan phase of American writing. was the next

great subject to command the attention of the best minds.

2.Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine’s and the eloquence of

the as by the weapons of Washington or Lafayette.

3.hampered colonial economy by requiring Americans to ship raw materials aboard and to

import finished goods at prices higher than the cost of making them in this country.

4.American dealt a decisive blow upon the puritan traditions and brought to life and

literature.

5.The secular ideas of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career

of , who instructed his countrymen as , not .

6.In 1783, the year the United States achieved its independence, declared, “American must

be as independent in literature as she is in politics, as famous for the arts as for arms”.

7.Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin went to Philadelphia as a young man and began

his career as .

8.From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous , an annual collection of

proverbs.

9.On January 10, 1766, Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared. It boldly advocated a

“Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.

10.is perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period.

11.Freneau was by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.

12.For a few years, writing with sporadic fluency, Freneau earned his living variously

as , , and sea captain.

13.As a poet, heralded American literature independence: his close observation of

nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.

14.Freneau has been called the “”, and it is ultimately in a historical estimate that F reneau is

important.

Answer:

1.theology, politics

mon Sense,

Declaration of Independence

3.The British government

4.Enlightenment, secular education

5.Benjamin Franklin, a printer, a priest

6.Noah Webster

7. a printer 8.Poor Richard’s Almanac

mon Sense

10.Philip Freneau

11.neoclassical

12.farmer, journalist

13.Freneau

14.Father of American Poetry

Part III

1.In 1828 the election of the frontier as the seventh President of the United States had

brought an effective end to the “V irginia Dynasty” of American presi dents.

2.The United States had been a republic of small , without sharp contrast of wealth.

3.Through the first half of 19th century the pursuit of , utility, and remained an

American characteristic.

4.In the first college-level institution for women, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

opened in to serve the “muslin sex”.

5.Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win financial success

on both sides of Atlantic.

6.The attitudes of America’s writers were shaped by their environment and array of ideas

inherited from the traditions of Europe.

7.values were prominent in American politics, art, and philosophy until the Civil War.

8.As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither nor .

9.Romantic writers placed increasing value on the expression of emotion and displayed

increasing attention to the states of their characters.

10.In 1820, published An American Dictionary of The English Language.

11.was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism, and his familiar style was

destined to outlive the formal prose of such contemporaries as Scott and Cooper, and to provide a model for the prevailing prose narrative of the future.